I, like many other people am a pretty visually oriented person. I like to look at pretty pictures and enjoy a spectacular view. I mean seriously, who isn’t awed by a great looking picture or a city skyline on a crystal clear night?

Most of the time newsreaders (RSS readers to be exact) are clunky and boxed into a window, and let’s be honest, most people are looking at the content rather than the UI of whatever application/web application they’re using. I normally use NetNewswire. It’s the staple of putting all your feeds in a nice and friendly way. You can easily view hundreds of RSS feeds and their articles all

I always wanted something lightweight but at the same time visually pleasing. I’ve tried Newsfire which has a gorgeous UI, but I still find myself going back to NetNewswire. I’ve used Vienna and I just didn’t really get used to it for long enough to keep it as my newsreader.

So today I found out about an app called Headline and it’s pretty much everything I’ve wanted in a newsreader. Small, compact and visually pleasing. Since it’s a very new app it’s obviously got some bugs and usage quirks that will hopefully be ironed out in the very near future. It also lacks quite a few features that I use NetNewswire for, namely flagging and clipping of articles for future viewing, ability to easily insert selected text into a blogging software (ecto to be exact), and syncing with a web based service (Newsgator, Bloglines, etc). If these things get resolved soon, this may be my new newsreader.